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AP Lang Mid-Term
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| alliteration | repetition of initial constant sounds |
| allusion | a reference to another work of literature, person, or event |
| anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses |
| antimetabole | repetition of words in reverse order |
| antithesis | the direct opposite, a sharp contrast |
| archaic diction | old-fashioned or outdated choice of words |
| asyndetion | a construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions |
| cumulative sentences | sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on |
| ethos | credibility |
| exigence | an issue, problem, or situation that causes or prompts someone to write or speak |
| hortative sentence | sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action |
| justaposition | placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts |
| logos | an appeal based on logic or reason |
| metonymy | a figure of speech in which something is refereed to by using the name of something that is associated with it |
| oxymoron | a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase |
| paradox | a statement that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth |
| pathos | appeals to emotion |
| periodic sentence | sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end |
| polysyndeton | the use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural |
| synecdoche | a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa |
| zeugma | use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous meanings |
| fallacy | a false or mistaken idea |
| faulty analogy | a fallacy that occurs when an analogy compares two things that are not comparable |
| appeal to false authority | this fallacy occurs when someone who has no expertise to speak on an issue is cited as an authority |
| circular reasoning | a fallacy in which the writer repeats the claim as a way to provide evidence |
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